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NEWS: Old-timers in jeans are stars of Levi&rsquo;s new ads

Bartle Bogle Hegarty has overturned the youth bias of fashion
advertising by signing up non-professional models between the ages of 60
and 86 years old to star in its latest print campaign for Levi’s Red Tab
jeans.

Bartle Bogle Hegarty has overturned the youth bias of fashion

advertising by signing up non-professional models between the ages of 60

and 86 years old to star in its latest print campaign for Levi’s Red Tab

jeans.

The latest in the long line of striking Levi’s ads - part of an pounds 8

million marketing spend in the UK for this financial year - the campaign

highlights the heritage of the brand by showing the Red Tab range

modelled by original wearers.

The models, who were chosen from the American Mid-west, include a 79-year-old teacher, Josephine, wearing 534 women’s fit jeans; Alonzo, 86,

the oldest surviving black cowboy in Colorado; and Julius, a 69-year-old

rancher from Colorado. Julius’s closest neighbour is his fellow model

and rancher, Lloyd, who lives an hour’s drive away.

The campaign - which includes double-page spreads and five- and eight-

page gatefold executions - will appear in the August to November issues

of style magazines including the Face, Dazed and Confused, i-D, Sky,

Elle, Arena, 19 and FHM. Media is handled by Motive.

The ads were shot by the fashion photographer, Nick Knight, art directed

by Steve Hudson and written by Victoria Fallon.

Roy Edmondson, the marketing director at Levi Strauss UK, said: ‘This

campaign draws on the 145-year heritage of Levi’s jeans. Nick Knight has

managed to capture the company’s heritage but with a contemporary mood.’